Gibara Int’l Film Festival will celebrate 20 years of creation
- Written by Heidi Calderón Sánchez
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The Gibara International Film Festival (FICGibara) to be held next August will celebrate twenty years of creation by the late filmmaker Humberto Solás, with the aim of promoting the seventh art from the stages of that coastal city of Holguín province.
In recent statements to the press, the director of the Festival, Sergio Benvenuto Solás, said that the event will have participants from various countries such as France, Spain, Italy, Argentina, as well as Cuba, who have presented a dozen fiction feature films, with clear social values typical of the idiosyncrasies of each nation, although the official selection of works for FICGibara has not yet been closed.
For the first time, the economic contribution of the governments of Holguín and Gibara constitutes the majority of the funds with which this edition will be organized, as a sign of the autonomy of the territorial governments and their commitment to local development.
The festival will take place from August 1 to 5, with the gender approach as a transversal theme, not only with a marked presence in audiovisual content, but also in visual arts exhibitions, workshops and plays.
The closing day will include the delivery of the Lucía prize to the actor, producer and filmmaker Jorge Perugorría, who from this year assumes his participation as Honorary President, for his important role in the relaunching of the event in 2016 and his leadership work until 2022.
According to Benvenuto Solás, the event will address the issue of heritage as the main transmitter of culture in the community, which will provide the possibility of highlighting the natural, archaeological and architectural wealth of the Gibara city.
The agenda also includes outdoor video screening, technologically assumed by the New Latin American Film Festival of Havana and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (Cosude).
Concerts of trova, jazz, alternative music and other artistic expressions will have the performance of renowned artists, such as Benicio del Toro, Imanol Arias, Victoria Abril, Silvio Rodríguez and Fito Páez.
Since its creation in 2003, the Gibara International Film Festival has been an opportunity for the production of low budget films and has defended the seventh art from the perspective of auteur cinema, the circuit of independent creation and alternative to the immensity of the film industry.
